Topic: West Virginia Coal Mine Explosion Kills 25 - More Feared Dead (Read 1757 times)

DUNBAR PLUMBING · « **on:** April 06, 2010, 12:45:06 AM »

MONTCOAL, W.Va. – An explosion at a remote coal mine with a history of safety problems killed 25 workers and at least four others were still missing early Tuesday more than a thousand feet underground in the worst U.S. mine disaster since 1984. Read more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_mine_explosion

Every year you hear about these types of accidents at coal mines. Kentucky has quite a few working coal mines and the dangers of working underground are high. High hazard work indeed. I feel sorry for those families, even though they know that every day they see their husbands go off to work, there's that one in a thousand chance that they might not come back.

The lure to those jobs is higher pay than a normal factory job, and with that comes danger with any high hazard profession. Plumbing is in that same category when it comes to dealing with the nasty germs we are in contact with on a regular basis.

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West Virginia Coal Mine Explosion Kills 25 - More Feared Dead